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Cultural preservationist with a passion for the media your algorithm isn’t showing you. Co-Chair @denverfilmcritics.bsky.social. Podcasting @ Piercing Pop Culture https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/piercing-pop-culture/id1802548333
I have a new episode of Piercing Pop Culture today as I talk Gateway Films and continuing down the path to discovering the joy in film.
What was the movie that opened your eyes to how much you loved film?
I love those moments! I live in fear of the “Was it really amazing? Or was I a child?” moments. I must watch Oscar at least once a year at this point.
Oscar and The Mask so close together cemented him as a favorite super early on.
100%. It’s one of a handful of movies that I not only don’t understand the knocks, but I don’t acknowledge them. It’s a delight.
What’s the movie you genuinely enjoy that is known for being bad?
I love Oscar (1991) with every fiber of my being. This is one of the first VHS I remember owning and it probably shaped my sensibilities in more ways than I can easily sum up.
Mine was the same. I’m still figuring out years after she passed what entertainment she actually liked… but I knew her feelings on Frank 😂.
A fascinating clip that gives the Chordettes an opportunity to speak. (I have yet to find many).
The brief interview starts around the 3:00 mark. I get immense delight from their pride in their success.
There’s some subtle cultural tap dancing happening between them and interviewer Dick Clark.
I’ve posted this one before. This is a fascinating for a slightly different reasons. The audience exists like a figure here showing almost the turning of the musical era. Culture shifting.
This clip lives rent free in my brain.
I watched Obsessive Love this week and it may have opened up a rabbit hole of potential movies to dig into as I apologize for oversimplifying Yvette Mimieux in my brain.
Farewell to Jennifer Runyon (1960-2026), who was everywhere in the ‘80s and always a delight.
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Writer Kathleen Hite on-during her time on Gunsmoke.
From a July 28, 1963 article in "The Blade" entitled: The Lady is a Writer of Gunsmsoke scripts
We didn't deserve her.
“CBS had a policy against hiring women writers so I hired on as a secretary. I figured once I got inside the building I could destroy them from within...I badgered the head of the writing department until he gave me a chance to write.”
-Kathleen Hite (best known for her work writing on Gunsmoke)
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There’s nothing like the start of F1 to get me deep in a Jim Clark research rabbit hole.
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I’m a bit of an oddity. When I think of my Universal favorites I’m usually watching The Wolfman and Creature from the Black Lagoon. I’m failing at my job, forgetting to get at least one of those on there.
Taking us back another generation, I love this Frank Sinatra newsreel footage at the Paramount.
My Grandmother always talked about seeing Frank Sinatra perform in her high school gym. (She was in school in NJ in the early 40s). She would always tell us how she really wasn’t impressed.
It feels wrong to not also pull this headline about western screenwriter Betty Burbridge to the top of the pile.
I have been shirking my responsibility. Time to start building a thread on the women behind the camera in television.
Kathleen Hite was spotlighted by the Wichita Beacon in May of 1970. The second, to be exact. Her personality leap off the page in a way that should surprise no one.
I should have added a (My) to the top ten, to be honest. I was thinking about this from a truly personal lens. I respect and admire those films immensely, but was blinded by my personal choices.
Top Ten Horror Movies:
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Mad Love (1935)
Lake Placid (1999)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Halloween (1978)
The Changeling (1980)
Tremors (1990)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Overheard on Tattletales:
“Is your wife an intellectual type person?”
Milton Berle: “She’s a dear and I can’t wait until hunting season opens.”
I got back onto my high horse (ha!) today with a dive into The Virginian season three, episode 24.
Lots of podcast randomness happening and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Can we just get a Morena Baccarin elite assassin movie already?
Overheard on Tattletales:
“If you add up the IQ scores of your ten smartest men friends and your ten smartest women friends, who would have the higher IQ? The men or the women?”
Because I may now want to make this a thread, my always and forever favorite to see the sheer humanity of a musical moment, The Beatles at Shea Stadium.
One of my favorite things about concert clips is when the audience tells a story. When there’s enough footage that you feel the vibe of not only the concert, but the moment.
I love everything about this Peter Frampton clip. The audience has such life. It’s such a slice of life.
I stumbled on this on YouTube today. This is the first I’m seeing (and hearing of) it, but I would watch David Dastmalchian read the phone book at this point.